Purpose By using higher moments, this paper extends the quadratic local risk-minimizing approach in a general discrete incomplete financial market. The local optimization subproblems are convex or nonconvex, depending on the moment variants used in the modeling. Inspired by Lai et al. (2006),...

The Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) has started a revolution in academic and investors’ circles since 1950s. In spite of the popularity of Markowitz’s portfolio selection, many critiques have been emerging throughout the years. One of them is the non normality of empirical return...